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Vital to the overnight build-up of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II were the new aptitude tests that transformed bakers and brokers into pilots, bombardiers and navigators. The tests downplayed such culture-linked criteria as college degrees and IQs. Instead, they matched raw abilities to the skills needed...
Earlier, to a divided but demonstrative audience of 400 at M.I.T., Professor H. Stuart Hughes, independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Arthur L. Waskow of the Peace Research Institute, had estimated that the dangers of a self-perpetuating arms build-up were far graver than those which independent action for disarmament would entail...
...West on "the expanding tyranny of Soviet Russia," Professor D.F. Fleming has addressed The Cold War and Its Origins.> Here, the Vanderbilt University specialist in international relations shows the Western assessment of guilt to be inadequate, based on false premises and conclusions, and all too suited to the nuclear build-up we wish to curtail...
This program calls, he said, for lifting the trade and travel bans on Cuba, restoring diplomatic relations, and ceasing the military build-up around Cuba. This, Wainer went on, would "be a signal to Latin Americans that they can do what they want with the wealth of their own countries. The people of Latin America will do the rest...
Charles E. Osgood, professor of Psychology and Communications at the University of Illinois, explained that the patterns established for reciprocal arms build-up offer hope for a reduction of terror, because the great power systems are geared toward response...